Garrison-Morton 581; Norman 255 (both citing the original edition); Lindeboom 64 (this edition).Rare first separate London edition of the first and largest portion, on physiology, of Boerhaave's 5-part Institutiones medicae, which originally appeared in 1708. "Institutiones medicae, his first book, was responsible, more than any other work, for establishing the study of physiology as an academic discipline" (Norman).